An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 5998-00-186-8583
NSN 7035-00-631-3782
NSN 6610-01-535-0310
NSN 5999-01-489-6139
NSN 6150-00-244-2664
NSN 5855-01-630-8608
NSN 6645-00-849-4429
NSN 2925-01-306-4228
NSN 5975-01-467-3005
NSN 6150-01-507-9454
NSN 6105-01-145-5046
NSN 6135-01-077-5705